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Against lance armstrong. you mentioned00 of tests he has taken. at a certain point where does this end? >> part of what lance's attorneys are arguing this is outcome oriented for a vendetta that top officials have against lance armstrong. >> they were looking at criminal process. that is higher bar, beyond a reasonable doubt for a criminal proceeding. this is not a criminal proceeding. this is civil proceeding which is much lower bar. jenna: vendetta? >> i don't know. let the process go forward. >> big vendetta, we found at the doping agency providing prosecutors with all information. later on...

The request of dock meants. judge, significant of this? >> there is two processes. criminal process where he could be indicted. that is not going to happen. no patrol prosecutor -- they all work for him -- is not going to indict him. it is not going to go anywhere until after election day. this will become a footnote. >> bret: politics? >> i think the politics are that i mean, republicans even though they probably don't argue merits of this. speaker boehner does not want this to become a huge focus of what is going non-the house. it still has to be about the economy. it's fine to have a vote. ...

and we've got a lot of breaking news today. the jury in the john edwards' federal corruption trial reaches a verdict on just one of the six counts against the one-time presidential hopeful. the defense asks for a mistrial, but the judge tells the jury they've got to keep at it. let's go straight to cnn's senior correspondent, joe johns. he's in greensboro, north carolina. joe, what is going on down there? >> reporter: well, you know, it gets stranger and stranger every minute. quite frankly, just a few minutes ago, gloria, we got the word to stay tuned. it may not be over yet, even f...

Under the criminal code is very controversial. it has been used and criticized in courts. judges have criticized it as being almost without limitation, that anything can constitute material support. so you can have an agency -- first of all, defining an organization as a terrorist organization under an agency process, not under criminal process, and then defining you as giving material support to that organization. it's hopelessly ambiguous and it lacks many of the protections you have in criminal process. >> let's say for a moment that it did not have all those flaws and was enacted. would it...

Of your citizenship. that material support term he has also supported under the criminal code is very controversial. it has been used and criticized in courts. judges have criticized it as being almost without limitation, that anything can constitute material support. so you can have an agency -- first of all, defining an organization as a terrorist organization under an agency process, not under criminal process, and then defining you as giving material support to that organization. it's hopelessly ambiguous and it lacks many of the protections you have in criminal process. >> let's say for a...